Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1887-04-21
THE FARM AND GARDEN.

u OlneT qublltleS, 30 hS 10 iuuuCc idi
mers TO raise large and better horses.
When cleaning the perches In the
poultry house 1t is necessary to apply
the mixture of kerosene oil and grease
to the under side as well as the top.
Even two or three feeds of cooked
'turnips or potatoes each week is better
than to omit such food altogether. 1t
Is variety that promotes the health
and keeps the stock in condition.
1t is an easy matter to have gar.
den SO arranged as to cultivate it with
a horse hoe, but the best results are
are usually obtained ON small plots
well MANFRED and worked by hand.
Never use whitewash in the stables
or hen houses unless carbolic acid is
added to it, as single application OF
the mixture is better than two or three
applications OF whitewaah alone.
The silver maple is rapid growing
tree, often attaining diameter of ten
inches in ten years. 1t also thrlves
well on sandy soils, requires but little
care, and has few insect enemies.
Farmers would find it to their ad-
vantage to corn mutton in weak
brine for home consumption. The
hams can be smoked and used like
dried beet or they can be boiled. The
corned mutton will be found an agree
able change from sausage and spare
ribs.
Clean out the old stalks of the car.
nations, sprinkle the soil and plant;
with lime water and clean Off the space
around them so as to permit of plenty
of heat from the sun. They are well
worth the small amount of labor re-
CURED, for bringing them to periec-
ton.
Beets, turnips, carrots and other
|succulent roots and tubers are capital
food for dairy COWS, and so are cotton
seed and linseed, but it would be as
sensible in landlady to subsist her
boarders on fruits and plum puddings
as for farmer to rely on those vege-
tables for the steady diet OF his cows.
KANT, which is now extensively
used as fertilizer, is compound OF
the sulphates of potash and magnesia,
containing, also, common salt and
other chlorides. 1t is not only an ex-
cellent fertilizer, being soluble, but is
one of the best materials that can be
used for preventing loss OF ammonia to
the manure heap.
The hog cholera, says the Indiana
Farmer, was somewhat prevalent in
|1S5S. The papers of the time, men
tioming the fact, contains the following
receipt: Some of the Western farmers
have found that by giving their hogs
corn mixed with tar, they have cured
the cholera among their hogs and pre-
vented the spread of it.
Regarding strawberry rust opinions
differ. Some ascribc the cause to too
much moisture; others to excess OF
manure on the plants, while it is also
claimed that it is due to the effects oil
| too much heat from the sun. What
is known as rust or blight may, how
ever, be traced to a minute worm
which does the mischief by working
Iaround the plants. 1t is suggested thai
the best remedy ID TO burn light GOV
ering OF straw over the plants.
If early cucumbers. melons ant
summer squashes are desired, plan
pieces of sod three or four inches
square in a shallow box, grass side
down and close together. Sow seeds
enough tor hill in the earth of eacf
piece Of sod. The box may be in ,
hotbed or in a sunny window. The
! plants will in due time fill the SOL
with roots, and when the weather will
allow transfer each piece of sod will
its plants to properly manfred hill
in the garden.
An experienced poultryman think
that the cause of failures in the man,
attempts to keep fowls in large mum
bers is due to a lack OF care. A far
liner will rise at A O'Clock in the morn
ling to feed and milk the cows, will
carefully clean out the stalls and pre-
pare beds for the cows, and hio wOrl
does not end till late, but he will no
lido SO much for the hens. Yet tn
hens will pay five times as much prof
in proportion to labor and capital in
vested as the cows.
Here is the way the large straw
bcrries are produced: Apply heav
Idressing of mixture of two parts eac
of muriate of potash and superphos
phate. with one part nitrate of soda
Keep the young plants clean, waite
Iwhen necessary, and do not allow
Isingle runner to start, as they shout
lbc pinched back. Mulch the youn
lplants in the fall, and remove til
mulch early in the spring. Then az
Iply another dressing of fertilizer an
lclean the soil by stirring it about a
Inch. When the young berries are ST
pinch off all but the largest. 1t RI
lquires work, but it will pay.
The usual advantage OF hot-bed
II start plants in is that a month csn b
gained in raising a crop. Ia tn
northern latitude this is of no sma
Importance. Those living near larg
cities do not greatly feel the need, 6
. 1.-THE market is abundantly supple
with truck shipped from the South c
glass covered houses of the marke
linen. But the farmer is generally n
.lmote from good markets, and even
Isuch vegetables are attainablc by hin
:. it is needless to spend money for whl
! can be raised at home. And the
: vegetables fresh from the gardens a
3 always better IN flavor than such ,
1 have been tor days in transit and
r the markets.
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